Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

Director & Actor (1934 - 2008)
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The ThumbScore for Sydney Pollack (72.1%) is the average audience approval rating across 22 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Sydney's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

22
Movies
72.1%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Sydney Pollack’s films higher than 55% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Three Days of the Condor (YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla) · The Scalphunters (Tubi) · This Property Is Condemned (Hoopla) · Absence of Malice (Tubi) · The Firm (Kanopy) · Jeremiah Johnson (Kanopy, Fawesome) and 1 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Robert Redford (5)Tom Cruise (3)Dabney Coleman (3)Nicole Kidman (2)Dustin Hoffman (2)

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. During his forty-year career, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. Pollack won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985).

He was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982). Pollack's other notable films include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), The Firm (1993), and Sabrina (1995). Pollack produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007), and he produced numerous films including The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Iris (2001), Cold Mountain (2003) and The Reader (2008). Pollack acted in Robert Altman's The Player (1992), Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Pollack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1934-07-01 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Died 2008-05-26.

On ThumbScore, Sydney Pollack appears in 22 films with an average audience score of 72.1%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Sydney Pollack movie, ranked by audience score

Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor
1975
👍 85%
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969
👍 84%
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
👍 83%
Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
👍 78%
The Yakuza
The Yakuza
1974
👍 78%
Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton
2007
👍 77%
The Scalphunters
The Scalphunters
1968
👍 76%
Out of Africa
Out of Africa
1985
👍 75%
This Property Is Condemned
This Property Is Condemned
1966
👍 74%
Absence of Malice
Absence of Malice
1981
👍 74%
Husbands and Wives
Husbands and Wives
1992
👍 73%
The Firm
The Firm
1993
👍 72%
The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman
1979
👍 72%
Tootsie
Tootsie
1982
👍 70%
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
1972
👍 70%
Bobby Deerfield
Bobby Deerfield
1977
👍 70%
The Way We Were
The Way We Were
1973
👍 67%
Havana
Havana
1990
👍 67%
Random Hearts
Random Hearts
1999
👍 63%
Sabrina
Sabrina
1995
👍 62%
The Interpreter
The Interpreter
2005
👍 59%
Changing Lanes
Changing Lanes
2002
👍 57%